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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 5346339, member: 89514&quot;]David,</p><p><br /></p><p>An interesting and rare variant, though maybe not too difficult to explain!</p><p><br /></p><p>Red metal of course means an As, and that denomination is confirmed by the Spes rev. type, which normally only appears on asses not dupondii of this issue. So apparently an As struck from a dupondius obv. die, or struck from a draped obv. die before it was decided to restrict that type to dupondii. The weight of 10.48g also fits well with an As: Rome-mint asses averaged 10.75g under Vespasian, dupondii 12.86g (BMC p. xvi).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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